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Private WILLIAM ARTHUR PURNELL

Service Number: 3013
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

1st/9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 July 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY

I. D. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Jane Purnell, of 2, Tooke St., West Derby Rd., Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription ABSENT FROM THE BODY PRESENT WITH THE LORD
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Buried or commemorated at

WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 366
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